Not a new problem : violence in the lives of disabled women / edited by Michelle Owen, Diane Hiebert-Murphy and Janice Ristock ; foreword by Emily Ternette.
"What women want": Pacific DAWN talks to women with disAbilities about escaping violence / Pat Kelln and Stephanie Parent. Mothering with disabilities: violence and equality rights / Laura Track -- The healing journey: women with disabilities and intimate partner violence / Michelle Owen and Jane Ursel -- Out of the closet: intimate partner violence as a factor contributing to cognitive diabilities / Roy Hanes, Karen March, and Ian Ford -- An "unconscious terrain of habits": structural violence against women labelled with intellectual disabilities / Natalie Spagnuolo and JoseĢe Boulanger -- A crisis of poverty: economic disparities, disabled women, and abuse / Linda De Riviere -- Making homelessness harder: possibilities for radical re-orientation / Liza Kim Jackson and nancy viva davis halifax -- Home care: gendered violence in independent living attendant services / Christine Kelly -- Taking action: gender-based violence, disability, and the social determinants of health / Karen K. Yoshida, Mary Bunch, Fran Odette, Susan L. Hardie, and Heather Willis -- "What women want": Pacific DAWN talks to women with disAbilities about escaping violence / Pat Kelln and Stephanie Parent.
Summary:
"Violence in the lives of women with disabilities is not a new problem, but it is a problem about which little has been written. This gap in our knowledge needs to be addressed, as women with disabilities are valuable members of our society whose experiences need to be made known. Without such knowledge, political action for social justice and for the prevention of violence is impossible. Contributors to Not a New Problem examine the experiences of Canadian women with disabilities, the need for improved access to services and the ways this violence is exacerbated by and intersects with gender, sexuality, indigeneity, race, ethnicity and class"-- Provided by publisher.
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